We've got good news for anyone who has spent the past twelve years praying for a new medium in which Norm Macdonald can laugh through crude punchlines early in the morning. The comedian is helping Saturday Night Live writer Fred Wolf launch Beyond the Comics, a series of raunchy, animated comic strips that will appear on the websites of seven newspapers this week. Depending on how popular the videos are (and this initial crop features the voices of David Spade, Sarah Silverman, Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, Colin Quinn and others), other newspapers all over the country will have the opportunity to buy and post the animated shorts on their websites, effectively ushering the funnies into the 21st century. Now who's in the mood for a good Sarah Silverman one-liner about peg legs?
The shorts -- which last anywhere from twenty seconds to a minute -- feature legendary Saturday Night Live characters like Dana Carvey's Church Lady and new characters such as Colin Quinn's victim of sunburn and sexual assault in the workplace. Wolf, who is credited for writing Dirty Work, Black Sheep, Joe Dirt and Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, has said that the project needs at least 200 newspapers to invest before Beyond the Comics is financially viable.
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ยท Beyond the Comics [Idaho Statesman]
